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My #FieldsofMistria OC!! This was so fun to make, especially thinking of the things they would like/love based on their travelling adventurer lifestyle... I'm really happy with this and its been really fun playing!!

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Bee @croverfield.bsky.social · 5h

Animated Portrait Sprite!! | #FieldsofMistria #FoM #Mistria #MistriaOC |

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 8h

PROJECT HAIL MARY X (MOSTLY) HUMAN RESOURCES Gloria fled a breakup on Earth, only to end up mediating territory disputes on an unclaimed planet. When she & the charming alien manager must cooperate, paperwork turns into feelings—until betrayal exposes the true reason each is there. #DVPit #A #SF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 12h

Gloria is avoidant, sleep-deprived, and running from her past. Emeric is the charming alien middle-manager who just made annoying her his new hobby. Both enjoy caffeine, paperwork, and arguing. And neither are being honest about their goals on this unclaimed planet. #DVPit #A #SF #R

Illustration of of Gloria, a human women with short brown hair and a pink business casual outfit, frowning at Emeric, a smug blue alien man with iridescent hair, moth antennae, and an HR violating top. She is brandishing a stack of papers at him while sitting on a desk and pulling on his tie, while he looks at her with adoration and amusement. Behind them is a whiteboard with a ton of story details like a picture of the moss or marker writing about meetings and deadlines.

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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the hardest things about being an author is NOT TELLLING EVERYONE ALL THE COOL SHIT YOU HID IN YOUR BOOK BECAUSE YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DISCOVER IT THEMSELVES. But you are also really passionate about the shit you hid in your book.

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 15h

First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined. For fans of: 🔬 SF concepts rooted in real science 🌈 Pretty aliens ❤️ Friends-to-Almost-Lovers-to-Rivals-to-Mess 🔥 Devastating slow-burn ♟️ Ideological conversations over alien chess 💼 Corporate satire #DVPit #A #SF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 16h

MEETING OF HONESTY—100K Adult Romantic Sci-Fi First contact—but it's a territory dispute between the two messiest people in the galaxy on an unclaimed, Monet-inspired planet. #DVPit #A #SF #R

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17h

Two hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co

September 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
DVPit 2026
* #DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
* Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2026 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
* Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
* A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
* A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
* A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
* Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder, we ask #DVpit participants NOT to use agent guides. Everyone using 300 characters offers a taste of your book & ensures an equal chance for all. Additionally if some include pitch decks/agent guides as an image, it bogs down the feed. More guidelines here: dvpit.carrd.co#faq

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 18h

MEETING OF HONESTY — 100K Adult Romantic SF PROJECT HAIL MARY X PARKS & REC 🤝 Accidental First Contact 🔬 Workplace Rivals-to-Lovers 🎨 Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Grumpy FL x Flirty Bi Alien ML 📋 Paperwork as Foreplay 🔥 Slow Burn (Derogatory) 👽 Speculative Alien Biology 🏳️‍🌈 Diverse Cast #DVPit #A #SF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First line of MEETING OF HONESTY, a 100K romantic sci-fi about first contact on a Monet-inspired planet: Gloria had seven hundred and twenty days to build a functioning colony. #DVParty

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#DVParty Day 2 Meet Gloria, the burnt-out project manager for their colonization mission. She handles conflict really normally (by leaving Earth), sleeps an Amount™️, and is only a little allergic to emotional intimacy. Also she just made first contact with the most dramatic man in the universe.

Character reference sheet for Gloria, a brunette human woman with brown eyes. One outfit is her casual outfit with jeans and a bomber jacket, the other her pink and white exosuit.

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MEETING OF HONESTY is a romantic sci-fi featuring first contact if it was a (messy) workplace rivals-to-lovers with bureaucratic satire. Expect iridescent aliens, scheming, and copious amounts of paperwork. TRANSLATION STATE X (MOSTLY) HUMAN RESOURCES #DVparty

Moodboard featuring paperwork covered in highlighters, a moth, a chessboard, blue moss growing on a tree, a moody beach, and red leaves. In front of the images is art of Gloria, a human woman in business attire holding a clipboard over the bottom half of her face.

Meeting of Honesty
Romantic Sci-Fi

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"I will give you enough paperwork that you do not see daylight for a week." Gloria and Emeric from my novel Meeting of Honesty 💙 the paperwork is foreplay. Thank you to the amazing @croverfield.bsky.social once again for the incredible art!! #MoHNovel #OCSky

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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 21/09/2026

READ MY FREE DRAGON STORY IT'S GOOD AND EVERYONE LOVES IT IT TAKES LIKE FIVE MINUTES TO READ AND WILL GIVE YOU HAPPY CHEMICALS barrows.itch.io/my-anoxic-he...

barrows.itch.io

My Anoxic Heart by Barrows

"I used to be a thing of the dirt, noble Dragon."

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TRANSLATION STATE X (MOSTLY) HUMAN RESOURCES Gloria fled a breakup on Earth, just to end up mediating territory disputes on an unclaimed planet. When she & the devious alien leader must collaborate, paperwork turns into feelings—until betrayal exposes the real reason each is there. #PreDV #A #SF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TRANSLATION STATE X (MOSTLY) HUMAN RESOURCES Gloria ran from her problems on Earth, just to end up mediating a territory conflict with aliens on an unclaimed planet. When she and the charming alien leader must collaborate, paperwork turns into feelings—until secrets get in the way. #PreDV #A #SF #R

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Bee @croverfield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Clover because... i miss her ;-;

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rae 📚🍀 @raesh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

HEY so my comic site is still a work in progress (feedback welcome!) but I soft launched RABBIT FEET over on Comic Fury! Check out the first four pages now: rabbitfeet.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#co... READ RIGHT TO LEFT!!!!! #webcomics #art #ocs #RABBITFEET

rabbitfeet.thecomicseries.com

RABBIT FEET

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MEETING OF HONESTY — 100K Adult Romantic Sci-Fi ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC ✨ Accidental First Contact ✨ Workplace Rivals-to-Lovers ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Grumpy FL x Flirty Bi Alien ML ✨ Paperwork as Foreplay ✨ Slow Burn (Derogatory) ✨ Diverse Cast #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

MEETING OF HONESTY — 100K Adult Romantic Sci-Fi ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

Moodboard of a clipboard for Meeting of Honesty

100K Adult Romantic Science-Fiction by Florrie Auclair

A polaroid showing a pastel monet painting labeled monet inspired planet

Another polaroid shows a snippet of an alien man with iridescent hair, moth antennae, and a long elfin ear with gold jewelry. His shirt is slipping down his slutty shoulders while a human hand cradles his face.

A post it note titled tropes/themes
- first contact
- queer rep
- humans = space orcs
- workplace rivals-to-lovers
- grumpy x flirty
- corporate satire

Another post it note titled playlist
- Petals on the Moon by Wasia Project
- Coming of Age by Durry
- PINCH ME by young friend

A page with an excerpt of the first chapter is covered by stickers and post its

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

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Nicole Cutter - THE ORANGE PEEL GAME @nicolecutter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

BLUE PRINCE X NATIONAL TREASURE 🚫 NO AI 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 is full of obsessive characters, each one pushed to their limits to open a locked box... And Caroline can taste everything they say 🍊 My debut is on its way to your hands! Follow its journey 🧡 #QuestPit #W #MY #NA #HF #U #WF #bookish 💙📚

Excerpts from The Orange Peel Game reads: He leaned in and whispered— a new pinhole light in his eyes. “Don’t you get a feeling from it all? Like you’ve found something… Something you weren’t supposed to. And now that you’re here you have a choice: Keep playing the game and see where it leads, or forget about it all— very well knowing other puzzles are out there. And knowing there are players, all around, who have its secrets.” “Grapevines have a lot of. Useless. Chatter. Noise, noise, noise, noise, noise.” His eyes still squeezed on hers, feverishly. Ravenously. As if daring her to talk, too. “But it told me about a game. See? Something finally fun to do in this draggin’ town.” “I should warn you,” Clement managed, now fully whispering. “In every iteration, opening the box has always proved dangerous.”

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Nicole Cutter - THE ORANGE PEEL GAME @nicolecutter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

THE WESTING GAME X NATIONAL TREASURE 🍊 Confined competitors 🍊 Nancy Drew-esque puzzles 🍊 Deliciously evocative prose If you're a fan of any of these comps, my debut 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 will fit perfectly on your shelf! Querying soon, follow its journey 🧡 #QuestPit #W #MY #NA #HF #WF #bookish 💙📚

The Orange Peel Game. The Westing Game meets National Treasure. Blurb: Caroline shouldn't have heard what was on that call.

It's 1949 in Cincinnati, a time where everyone is unwrapping their wounds of war. Caroline, a
switchboard operator, overhears a murder in a nearby phonebooth with no one to believe her. But the encryption games of WW2, it seems, are not quite over: Her search for the killer propels her into a game of puzzles and cyphers laid out across the city. Those who've already been playing watch her from the shadows, and one of them might just be the murderer. And there's one more thing curious about Caroline:

She can taste the world. Comp titles: The Westing Game, for forced compition. Blue Prince, for vibes and puzzles. The 7 and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, for high concept and twisty mystery.

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NETTLE & BONE x STAR DAUGHTER 💰 Cheating a suitor out of his money to help her family was easy. 🌌 Falling in love with the night sky trapped in a mortal body is harder. 💔 And helping them return to the sky at the expense of her heart might just be impossible. #QuestPit #A #F #RF #Q #LGBT

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

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Sab is making FINAL EDITS ✨ @sabrinamars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WHEN LIGHT IS NOT ENOUGH 124k adult portal romantasy featuring: ✨Midwestern college student becomes fated magical girl? ✅ ✨Arrogant (but hot?) daemon prince? ✅ ✨Forced proximity --> sexy sparring? ✅ ✨90s anime angst? ✅ ✨D&D wild magic? ✅ #questpit #a #fr #w #writesky (Art by ginnystellart)

Two characters in an alley about to SMOOCH

Book tropes that say found family, portal fantasy, spicy slow burn, golden retriever bff and grumpy immortal guardian, CPTSD rep, SHE saves HIM, DBT coded magic system, power that just to hold, Midwest FMC x Disgraced prince MMC

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Nicole Cutter - THE ORANGE PEEL GAME @nicolecutter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's 1949 Cincinnati. Everyone is unwrapping their war wounds, but the encryption games of WW2 are not quite over. Searching for a killer, Caroline is forced to solve puzzles laid out across the city... and she can taste the world 🍊 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 coming soon! #QuestPit #W #MY #NA #HF #U #WF

A collage of materials from the 1940s. Lines from The Orange Peel Game read: dangerous. Pith and pulp and orange peels. Everything means something in this game.

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Marat's Invisible Man is Alive 🫀 @maratearendel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Interview with the Vampire x Frankenstein A Gothic vampire novel about two disaster gays making terrible decisions in a sentient castle. For people who like their mental breakdowns erotic, morally questionable characters & prose you can chew on. #questpit #a #pr #dr #h #p

Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope,
takes a job in a remote castle
under a mysterious employer.
As sinister events unfold around him, he begins to feel things he thought himself incapable of.

The castle is hungry for it.

To uncover its secrets,
he must endure more than he ever imagined. available as an ebook, paperback and for free on ku.

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS #AgentsGuide #FantasyRomCom #AdultFantasy #AmQuerying

An Agent's Guide to LIGHT WIELDING & OTHER MORTAL MAGICS by Rebecca Bell - Image shows a death's head moth in a flashlight beam on a starscape over a forested background.

THE PITCH: In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. TROPES: Fantasy RomCom, Grumpy x Grumpy, Enemies to Lovers, Monster Romance, Beauty & the Beast, Sibling Rescue, Mortal Among Immortals, Humanity as Power. COMPS: EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES, THRONE IN THE DARK, LONG LIVE EVIL, ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN. Image shows a starscape over a forested background.

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justinahhartsock @justinahhartsock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x AMATKA The last city of the universe survives by keeping its people from feeling. When an engineer discovers emotion and forbidden love beyond the city’s walls, she must decide how much of her world she’s willing to destroy to become herself. #QuestPit #A #LF #S #U

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Drawing of a man with long red hair and a scar running down his face and a woman with dark way hair. they have their foreheads pressed together and the girl's hand is on his cheek. He is gently holding her arm. There is an aura of sadness despite the tender image. A golden sun is behind them.

Text: Between Fractures of Light

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Aven McVie 📚✍️ @avenmcvie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When pulled into a weapons program, Vic expects routine - not a neural link wiring her mind with an alien officer's. No thought unshared. No feeling hidden... not even the ones growing between them. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program. #QuestPit #W #R #SF

Moodboard for TANDEM, a sapphic sci-fi romance, in blue and violet shades.
Top row: A person in a dim blue lighting wears a headset with glowing red lenses; a surgical room with lights shining down overhead; a close-up of dark snake scales; a moon against the sky with clouds.
Middle row: a purple sky with two galaxies; a glowing title card that reads "tandem: a sapphic sci-fi romance".
Bottom row: a photo of a blue circuit board; two silhouettes of women facing each other, close, against the sky; a round spaceship observation window.

When Vic Kohler is pulled into a high-visibility new weapons program, she expects it to be a fairly standard assignment - not a neural link wiring her mind with Naev, a Vamath officer.

The pair learns quickly that this new connection offers no privacy: no thoughts are left unshared, no feelings are left unhidden... not even the feelings that are growing between them. The institution must never find out, because the program’s exit procedure is safe for a human and lethal for a Vamath. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program.

TANDEM is an ~87,000-word sapphic sci-fi romance - military SF tension meets speculative fiction interiority, for readers who want yearning with total transparency.

Tropes: Space travel, Human/alien romance, Forbidden love, Mind link, Interstellar politics, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Sapphic yearning.

Comp Titles. For readers who loved: This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone; Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell; The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do you like ⛰️ quests, ⚔️ battles,💜 found family, & 🌌 multiverses? Features #F tropes turned on their heads, including: 🚶excessive amounts of walking 🏛️a fraught council meeting 🧝token elves and dwarves (hobbits not included) How about a #SFF POV? WEB TRAVELER: A Meme Compilation #Q #A #QuestPit

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Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sometimes the only way to truly find safety is to risk it all. The Archwitch Rises an exceedingly queer romantasy novel where two men (and several gods) used to running and hiding fight back against an empire that doesn't want them to exist. #questpit #Q #A #RF #HF #LGBT #OwnVoices

White text on a dark forest background:

The Archwitch Rises
Historic Romantasy
Desperate to find safety in a tyrannical theocracy, a magically-gifted trans nobleman, his bounty-hunting alchemist boyfriend, and the spirit of the moon fight back against the sun's "order." Will they be able to topple the empire for good, or will it all go down in flames?
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT+FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
Dual POV
Trans Wrongs
Safety vs liberation
Forbidden Love
Sassy Gods
Fake(?) Chosen One
Neurotic Mess x Autism Creature

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Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You know what? Let's do a silly one. Wanna read a fairly neurodivergent and even queer fantasy book about a trans nobleman, his autstic alchemist boyfriend, and the moon taking down the government in a way that boils down to this meme? Watch this space. #questpit #Q #A #RF #HF #LGBT #OwnVoices

Meme of a gundam shooting over a person's head. The person looking at the gundam says "wow!! We must build solidarity because none of us are free until all of us are free." The text flying over the person's head reads "the sun is evil and i miss trees."

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Elia doesn't want to take holy orders. But after he enters the convent, his visions are confirmed when a murderer begins to move through Venice. THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

A banner for Elia in Isola, Young adult, Gothic horror, venice 1600s, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption querying soon. red tulips are in the background.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, anatomy: gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

A banner for Elia in Isola, The pitch, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent.

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.

A banner for Elia in Isola, first line, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. The quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When his elf supremacist cousin threatens war, Letyf must confront his traumatic past on a world-saving quest—but he's up against Lia, a world-hopping demon with a reputation to uphold and plenty of lives under her belt. 🧠 Anxious MC 🗡️ Cynical FMC 🤝 Enemies to Allies 💜 Ace Rep #Q #A #SFF #QuestPit

A mood board featuring rich purples and faded blues. Images include art of Link from BOTW, with the tagline "Gentle Protagonist", Blackbird by Mezamero with the tagline "Unhinged FMC", a fantasy battle by Dongbiao Lu, two people running through the dark woods, and photography of a rocky valley.

WEB TRAVELER - Adult Epic Sci-Fantasy, 129k, Series Potential.

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Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Olinda Brown @olindabrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Stardew Valley x Howl’s Moving Castle. Just add more small dragons 🐉 #revpit 2026 winner #questpit #A #F #cozyfantasy

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good morning #Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration, an #Agentsguide to: AFTER THE BITE (SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD) #W #A #SF #H #R

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Presenting an agents guide to:
AFTER THE BITE
Genre: Horror, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Romance
Status: Completed first draft at 82k words

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The pitch:
When Erika emerges from a nearly calcified cocoon in a zombie filled basement, they find themself in a world of horror and carnage, and find themself capable of shifting their shape, even making weapons from their body. What Erika is missing is their memory, which they must recover while avoiding the nightly pull of a strange light only they can see around the spire in the center of persistence, the last human city in North America.

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Comp Titles: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN X LAND OF THE DEAD
Posters of both book and movie included.
Tropes and Themes:
MONSTER’S POV
ZOMBIE POST-APOCALYPSE
SURVIVING WALLED CITY
MAD SCIENTIST
HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS
BODY HORROR
CHANCE ENCOUNTER TO ROMANCE
ROTTEN CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD
Pictures of some of the above.

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Excerpt:
I push out against the hardness in front of me. It resists, but only for a few moments. Cracking and crunching noises fill my senses where only the beats were. I push harder. It fights me, but i cannot stop.
Cracks appear in front of me and… whatever it is i’m in is breached. Light and air flood over me and i gasp, drawing in lungfuls of air to sate the burning.
Thu-dump! Thu-dump!
My heart calms now that i have air, but it still beats rapidly. I still have to get out, i am in danger here! Get out and get up!
How do i know all this?
I push again, harder now that i’m breathing again. The cracks widen… and then i’m falling forward out of a large tear. My whole world tumbles, and then i’m half laying on a cold, rough, dirty floor, half hanging out of my vacated prison. I draw in another breath and start coughing, expelling dark liquid out of my lungs, but i am breathing fully and properly now.

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

💫 Light After the Fall 💫 a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace coming this October 🧙 Feedback requested: Which cover/what elements of each cover do you prefer? All feedback welcome & appreciated! #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

Title: "Light After the Fall"
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding sunflower

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a meditating figure glowing

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Earth is recovering from agricultural collapse. Scientists travel to another planet in hopes of a compatible soil microbiome. Only Izzy finds herself not just studying soil, but thrown into Tzio’s labor organizing. 💜 ace rep 🔥 slow burn 🦎 cat-sized geckos 🐓 chickens in space #QuestPit #W #A #SF

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Text:

WORK IN PROGRESS:
THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC FOR EXOPLANETS

Isabel Meyer
Agronomist
Unit 5

File folders: soil samples / almanac archive / chickens 101 / ütska dictionary

Objectives: study soil to ensure viability for implantation on earth / learn from native farmers / keep chickens alive

Planet name: Mtskhütska
Alien name: Tzamarkh

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BONE KING'S BLUFF After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name. 🦴 Death magic 🏰 Locked-castle mystery 🕯️ Medieval fantasy 🏹 Robin Hood trope 🏳️‍🌈 MM romance #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

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R. F. Daniels (they/he) @rfdwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STARS IN BLOOM (complete, 100k) 🌌 A galaxy-spanning hunt for ancient technology 🦹🏼‍♂️ A race to save their home from corporate destruction ☀️ Grumpy/sunshine pairing 🙅‍♀️ Support women's wrongs 🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary aroace MC in a queernormative world 🍄 Cool space fungus 🐈‍⬛ Don't forget the cat! #QuestPit #Q #A #SF

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Colleen Writes @colleenmoodyauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨THE WISHES WE MADE✨ Querying my 84k-word adult paranormal romance with a touch of magic & Irish folklore Childhood best friends turn enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again in the shadow of family secrets and an ancient curse! #Questpit #A #PR #Q

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Lunaria Witch 🌙🍃❤️‍🔥🐦‍⬛ A River Enchanted ❌ Unmasked ❌ Practical Magic “A garden is a tale, yet to be told. The telling begins as the seasons unfold” #questpit #q #f #r #ownvoices

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